Truth Matters Now there’s a hashtag: #TruthMatters Here’s a pair related stories. First, the age-old question, “why can’t I find a date?!?” — Noo Version: Alok and Jacob … Both are trans-identified, but belong somewhere in between genders, and they’ve amassed huge social media followings as gender nonbinary, femme, and fabulous human beings. They’ve become [...]
CircleD’s and their own lens Trump is perceived as a populist [I'm only talkin' about perceptions, here -- Reality is not Winning] Teh CircleD’s see that Populism thang went over well in the last election. Therefore Teh CircleD’s are trying to look Populist — yanno, “just like You and Me™!” How, one might ask? Speaking [...]
and Creepy™ Admission Over a period of twenty months, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy repeatedly concedes that the Agency’s sweeping climate-regulation of America’s fossil fuel-fired power plants will have no impact on the Earth’s climate. McCarthy openly admits that the Clean Power Plan “is not about end of pipe controls.” Instead, she says the rule is [...]
a nation of men – not of Laws In taking their first crack at President Donald Trump’s immigrant travel ban Monday, judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit resorted to hypothetical situations to make up for a lack of precedent when forming their questions. …Judge Paul Niemeyer jumped in with his [...]
Found near San Diego: In a paper published today in Nature, researchers describe broken bones of a mastodon (an extinct relative of elephants) and battered rocks from a site in southern California. The team argues the remains demonstrate humans were in the Americas 130,000 years ago, in the early late Pleistocene epoch. If they are [...]
March 30, 2017 – 10:43 am
everybody knows! First off — who knew Congress could disapprove of a regulatory rule proposed by the Regulatory .Gov?!?? From the document being disapproved: … the current federal privacy regime… does not now comprehensively apply the traditional principles of privacy protection to these 21st Century telecommunications services provided by broadband networks. That is a gap [...]
March 12, 2017 – 11:49 am
Department of Redundancy Department aaaand yet another try from the CA Legisthieves to dump the idea that the .gov can dictate what time it is and then change it around for no good reason twice a year. Here’s the sensible, ProggieLogyk™ argument for keeping the changes: “Let’s just not ignore the fact that people are [...]
Irony Is Dead Edition EMOTIONAL LABOR – noun: the exertion of energy for the purpose of addressing people’s feelings making people comfortable, or living up to social expectations Yeah… like when someone gets all panty-twisted about a microagression? or doesn’t show up for work and you gotta do their damjob cuz they’re having a Special [...]
so long as I can choose which womyn… Bringing people together… “A Day Without a Woman,” whose organizers include Women’s March co-chairs Tamika Mallory, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour, is taking place in solidarity with the International Women’s Strike*, which has partners in over 50 countries. We recall Carmen Perez, co-founder of Justice League NYC [...]
Logyc does not translate? A Mexican congressman went to great lengths — and heights — Wednesday to illustrate why he believes that President Trump’s controversial U.S.-Mexico border wall is “unnecessary” and “totally absurd.” So a congressman from one country is workin’ real hard to demonstrate his outrage that another country will not allow the congressman’s [...]
